You Can and Should Make Hardware QCon/SF 2017
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Two Microns at This Scale –> || Image credit: Javier Caneros Music: Huma-Huma
Malaria Diagnosis Image credit: Foldscope Diseased Blood Healthy Blood
ECommerce Automation Image credit: Jeff Williams
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You Cannot Compete with This
Pretotyping Image credit: IBM
Smartphone Superpower Image credit: Jeff Williams
Smartphone Upcycle
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Design
Essential User Task Hike to that Mountaintop Economically Launch 5000kg into LEO Reveal the Microscopic World for $2 Use Heart Rate Biofeedback to improve CBT Treatment Accurately and efficiently execute tens of thousands of e-commerce orders with wildly different daily sku mix using transient labor
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Cost Calculations $100/unit (remote) vs $400/unit (local) 50 sets per build, two major builds $10k (remote) vs $40k (local) One week delay - $40k $50k (remote) vs $40k (local)
ZeroDiff A Simple Philosophy If you maintain zero difference between prototype and production designs, you can mass produce any revision even when you iterate designs rapidly Corollary Always manufacture prototype and production designs on the same tooling - always
Velocity Image credit: Alain Stoll World Speed Record: 574km/hr
Velocity Paris –> Brussels: 314 km SNCF 574 km/hr –> 32 minutes 10 minute station delay… now it’s 42 minutes Average velocity is now 448 km/hr... Taking us back to 1996! Use a less expensive train, and still get there faster!
Kaizen Image credit: Jeff Williams
NY Review of Books “ A pen is not a magic wand . The critical faculty is not conjured from nothing. But it was remarkable how many students improved their performance with this simple stratagem. There is something predatory, cruel even, about a pen suspended over a text. Like a hawk over a field, it is on the lookout for something vulnerable .” –Tim Park
Read with a Pen Image credit: Jeff Williams
Markdown + mkdocs + Github
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Generic Business-y Slide Image credit: Kevin Phillips
Origami Image credit: toomai
Industrial Origami Image credit: Jeff Williams
Poscon Origami Example
F 1/10 Robot Racing Image credit: F 1/10 Team UPenn
Donkey Car
3D Printing is Slow/Expensive Image credit: Jeff Williams
Design Stuff with Fusion 360 Image credit: Jeff Williams
Push EagleCAD to Fusion360 Image credit: Jeff Williams
Combined Object Image credit: Jeff Williams
Iteration Toward a $25 Robot! Image credit: Jeff Williams
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My Essential User Task Image credit: Jeff Williams Cheap Open Source Robots that Workers Own and Program
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